When Siddharája attained manhood his mother prepared to go in great state on pilgrimage to Somanátha. She went with rich offerings as far as Báhuloda apparently the large modern village of Bholáda on the Gujarát-Káthiáváda frontier about twenty-two miles south-west of Dholká. At this frontier town the Anahilaváda kings levied a tax on all pilgrims to Somanátha. Many of the pilgrims unable to pay the tax had to return home in tears. Miyánalladeví was so saddened by the woes of the pilgrims that she stopped her pilgrimage and returned home. Siddharája met her on the way and asked her why she had turned back. Miyánalladeví said, I will neither eat nor go to Somanátha until you order the remission of the pilgrim tax. Siddharája called the Bholáda treasurer and found that the levy yielded 72 lákhs a year. [573] In spite of the serious sacrifice Siddharája broke the board authorizing the levy of the tax and pouring water from his hand into his mother's declared that the merit of the remission was hers. The queen went to Somanátha and worshipped the god with gold presenting an elephant and other gifts and handing over her own weight in money. According to the Prabandhachintámani while Miyánalladeví and Siddharája were on pilgrimage Yasovarman king of Málwa continually harassed the Gurjjara-Mandala. Sántu who was in charge of the kingdom asked Yasovarman on what consideration he would retire. Yasovarman said he would retire if Siddharája gave up to him the merit of the pilgrimage to Somesvara. Sántu washed his feet and taking water in his hand surrendered to Yasovarman the merit of Siddharája, on which, according to his promise, Yasovarman retired. On his return Siddharája asked Sántu what he meant by transferring his sovereign's merit to a rival. Sántu said, 'If you think my giving Yasovarman your merit has any importance I restore it to you.' [574] This curious story seems to be a Jain fiction probably invented with the object of casting ridicule on the Bráhmanical doctrine of merit. Yasovarman was not a cotemporary of Siddharája. The Málwa king referred to is probably Yasovarman's predecessor Naravarman, of whom an inscription dated A.D. 1134 (S. 1190) is recorded. [575]